New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Hutchinson
2003 Jan-March
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Hutchinson
JAN-MARCH 2003
Robert Ferrigno
Scavenger Hunt
Published January 2003 by Hutchinson at £18.99
ISBN: 0091794056
Death stalks the City of Angels... 'This scavenger hunt of yours... I played that game when I was a kid. Knocking on doors, asking for treasure and trash, and it's all the same to you. Well, open your eyes, tough guy, you stumbled on to something big here.' Walsh clawed at Jimmy Cage's arm. 'Put me on the cover of SLAP, play it up big - ' Jimmy shook him off. 'I've been hustled by the best, Walsh, and this ancient mariner routine of yours is stale. Hire a press agent if you want publicity.' 'You're killing me.' Walsh stared out of the window, his face slack. 'You're killing me and you don't even know it.' An American thriller set in California in the world of Hollywood. A hot, young Tarantino type movie director has just been released from prison after serving a jail sentence for the rape and murder of a young girl. But as Jimmy Cage, a reporter on SLAP magazine discovers, he was set up as an act of revenge. Several deaths and threats to his own life later, Jimmy works out who set him up and why.
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William F Owen
Blackfoot is Missing
Pbk published February 2003 by Hutchinson at £9.99
ISBN: 0091794684
'What we do here is not for everyone. It's real hard work, and once in a while we lose folks. Laos and Cambodia are the North Vietnamese Army's backyard. It's their home and they don't like us snooping around. They got anti-aircraft guns, more trucks than you can count and whole companies just dedicated to hunting recon teams. If you find this ain't your thing, then you gotta say so. I know a lot of brave men who just weren't cut out for recon. Got it?' CCC Kontum, a US Special Forces unit, runs top-secret cross border reconnaissance missions. The President denies their involvement, and the public is unaware of their existence. Any method is permissible in a secret war of relentless ferocity, where achieving your mission and surviving are not the same thing. Bobby Lake dropped out of Harvard to fight in Vietnam, because he wanted to be a hero. But how do you become a hero amongst men who only notice the cowards, where just the price of respect is high, and the cost of being a hero is hard to pay?
William F Owen's fiercely dramatic first novel is based on events that took place in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia between January and August 1970.
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Chris Simms
Outside the White Lines
Published March 2003 by Hutchinson at £15.99
ISBN: 0091795389
Motorways can be murder...
He is every policeman's worst nightmare: the killer who leads an
innocuous and apparently blameless family life. His next murder
can't be predicted - even he doesn't know when it is going to be.
He roams the motorways, attacking breakdown victims who wait
alone for help to arrive.
Interwoven with his story is that of two people: the young
policeman who loses the support of his colleagues during the
murder hunt, battling even with his more experienced partner; and
the Searcher. In the Searcher, Chris Simms has created a
character who ranks alongside the best of Ruth
Rendel's classic portrayals of psychological cripples.
The author's depiction of the murderer's unravelling
mind, the young policeman's self-doubt and the
Searcher's strange obsession creates a darkly
compelling psychological drama.
As the book moves inexorably forward, all three are
drawn together in a final meeting.
A gripping and compelling first novel from a new
crime writer: Outside the White Lines has the
psychological immediacy of Ruth Rendell plus the
gritty violence of Mo Hayder.
Chris Simms is a freelance advertising copywriter. He is
married with two small children. This is his first book.
He is already at work on his second.
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